AP World History Chapter 10 Flashcards

8040417342	Kievan Rus	State that emerged around the city of Kiev in the 9th century; a culturally diverse region that included vikings, Finnic, and Baltic peoples.	0
8040417343	System of Competing States	The distinctive organization of Western European political life that developed after the fall of the Roman empire in the 5th century.	1
8040417344	Vladimir	Grand Prince of Kiev whose conversion to Christianity led to the incorporation of Russia into the sphere of Eastern Orthodoxy	2
8040417345	Vikings	Scandinavian raiders who had an impact on much of Western Europe in the late 8th-11th century	3
8040417346	Natural Philosophy	The scientific study of nature	4
8040417347	Holy Roman Empire	The Germany-based empire founded by Otto in 962 ce	5
8040417348	Hybrid Civilization	Path of Western Europe in the centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Lead to a society with elements of classical Rome, Germanic Barbarians, and Christianity.	6
8040417349	Iconoclasm	The desctruction of holy images. The Byzantine state policy of image destruction from 726-843	7
8040417350	Justinian	Byzantine emperor noted for his short-lived reconquest of the Western Roman Empire and his codification of Roman law	8
8040417351	Indulgence	A remission of the penalty for confessed sin that could only be granted by the pope.	9
8040417352	Cyril and Methodius	9th-century Byzantine missionaries to the Slavs who developed Cyrillic script so they could read Slavic languages.	10
8040417353	Cyrillic	Alphabet based on Greek letters to write Slavic languages	11
8040417354	European Cities	Urbanization that began in 11th-century Western Europe. Towns created major trade networks and a high degree of independence	12
8040417355	Greek Fire	Form of liquid fire that could be sprayed at the enemy, invented by the Byzantines and important to stop Arab advance in their territory.	13
8040417356	Guild	An association formed by people with the same jobs that regulates their professions and provides a social and religious network for members	14
8040417357	Charlemagne	Ruler of the Carolingian empire who staged an imperial revival in Western Europe	15
8040417358	Crusades	The holy wars waged by Western Christendom from 1095-beyond the Middle Ages	16
8040417359	Roman Catholic Christianity	Western European branch of Christianity that separated itself from Eastern Orthodoxy in 1054 ce	17
8040417360	Eastern Orthodox Christianity	Eastern Roman branch of Christianity that separated itself from the dominant Roman Catholic Christianity	18
8040417361	Constantinople	New capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire established in 330 ce	19
8040417362	Byzantine Empire	The surviving eastern Roman Empire during the medieval centuries	20
8040417363	Caesaropapism	System in which the political leader is also the religious leader	21
8040424741	Otto I	(936-973) German King who built the Holy Roman Empire 962 ce.	22
8040440456	Aristotle and classical Greek learning	(384-322 bce) The infusion of Greek rationalism into Europe's universities shaped intellectual development for several centuries.	23